<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><b><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><i>TTIC Distinguished Lecture Series:</i></font></b></h3><h3 style="font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><b><font size="4" face="verdana, sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.266667px"><a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mooney/" target="_blank">Raymond J. Mooney,</a> </span></font></font></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">University of Texas at Austin </span></b></h3><div><img style="margin-right:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Monday</b><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">, March 14, 2022 </span><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">at 11:30 am CT</span></b></font></div><span style="outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial"></span></div><span style="outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial"></span><img src="cid:ii_l0bliar53" alt="image.png" width="228" height="210"></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#500050" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Where:    </b></font><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Talk will be given</font><font color="#500050" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050">                </font><font color="#000000">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">                5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Virtually:</font></span></b><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></b><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O8pTNeswQwywyWNPD_q_9A" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">register in advance here</font></span></b></a></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Raymond J. Mooney</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professor, Department of Computer Science </span></i></font><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span></i><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Director of the <a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/" target="_blank">Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</a> at the University of Texas at Austin</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></p></div><hr style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><span id="m_8135978160388122184gmail-m_2498973156281562896m_169540586468905151gmail-m_5505282361713836537m_-94467141635834449gmail-m_-254853893602620168m_-1430113635152439921m_-6662830674891166283m_6085487820989011878m_-5465756499005179649gmail-docs-internal-guid-99b2a842-7fff-afbd-120d-233d5fea86fa"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Title: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dialog with Robots: Perceptually Grounded Communication with Lifelong Learning</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Developing robots that can accept instructions from and collaborate with human users is greatly enhanced by an ability to engage in natural language dialog. Unlike most other dialog scenarios, this requires grounding the semantic analysis of language in perception and action in the world. Although deep-learning has greatly enhanced methods for such grounded language understanding, it is difficult to ensure that the data used to train such models covers all of the concepts that a robot might encounter in practice. Therefore, we have developed methods that can continue to learn from dialog with users during ordinary use by acquiring additional targeted training data from the responses to intentionally designed clarification and active learning queries. These methods use reinforcement learning to automatically acquire dialog strategies that support both effective immediate task completion as well as learning that improves future performance. Using both experiments in simulation and with real robots, we have demonstrated that these methods exhibit life-long learning that improves long-term performance.</span></p><br></span><span id="m_8135978160388122184gmail-m_2498973156281562896m_169540586468905151gmail-m_5505282361713836537m_-94467141635834449gmail-m_-254853893602620168m_-1430113635152439921m_-6662830674891166283m_6085487820989011878m_-5465756499005179649gmail-docs-internal-guid-028064f6-7fff-801c-37d6-e680d4a47477"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bio: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Raymond J. Mooney is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is an author of over 180 published research papers, primarily in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. He was the President of the International Machine Learning Society from 2008-2011, program co-chair for AAAI 2006, general chair for HLT-EMNLP 2005, and co-chair for ICML 1990. He is a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and ACL and the recipient of the Classic Paper award from AAAI-19 and best paper awards from AAAI-96, KDD-04, ICML-05 and ACL-07. </span></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:13.91px">Host:</span></b><span style="line-height:13.91px"> <a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>David McAllester</b></a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"></p><img src="cid:ii_kn66edsg2" alt="image.png" width="189" height="58" style="margin-right:0px"></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 3:48 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><div><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><b><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><i>TTIC Distinguished Lecture Series:</i></font></b></h3><h3 style="font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><b><font size="4" face="verdana, sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.266667px"><a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mooney/" target="_blank">Raymond J. Mooney,</a> </span></font></font></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">University of Texas at Austin </span></b></h3><div><img style="margin-right:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Monday</b><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">, March <span>14</span>, 2022 </span><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">at 11:30 am CT</span></b></font></div><span style="outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial"></span></div><span style="outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial"></span><img src="cid:ii_l0bliar53" alt="image.png" width="228" height="210"></div><div><font color="#500050" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Where:    </b></font><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" color="#000000">Talk will be given</font><font color="#500050" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050">                </font><font color="#000000">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">                5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Virtually:</font></span></b><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></b><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O8pTNeswQwywyWNPD_q_9A" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">register in advance here</font></span></b></a></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Raymond J. Mooney</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professor, Department of Computer Science </span></i></font><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span></i><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Director of the <a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/" target="_blank">Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</a> at the University of Texas at Austin</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></p></div><hr style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><span id="m_8135978160388122184gmail-m_2498973156281562896m_169540586468905151gmail-m_5505282361713836537m_-94467141635834449gmail-m_-254853893602620168m_-1430113635152439921m_-6662830674891166283m_6085487820989011878m_-5465756499005179649gmail-docs-internal-guid-99b2a842-7fff-afbd-120d-233d5fea86fa"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Title: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dialog with Robots: Perceptually Grounded Communication with Lifelong Learning</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Developing robots that can accept instructions from and collaborate with human users is greatly enhanced by an ability to engage in natural language dialog. Unlike most other dialog scenarios, this requires grounding the semantic analysis of language in perception and action in the world. Although deep-learning has greatly enhanced methods for such grounded language understanding, it is difficult to ensure that the data used to train such models covers all of the concepts that a robot might encounter in practice. Therefore, we have developed methods that can continue to learn from dialog with users during ordinary use by acquiring additional targeted training data from the responses to intentionally designed clarification and active learning queries. These methods use reinforcement learning to automatically acquire dialog strategies that support both effective immediate task completion as well as learning that improves future performance. Using both experiments in simulation and with real robots, we have demonstrated that these methods exhibit life-long learning that improves long-term performance.</span></p><br></span><span id="m_8135978160388122184gmail-m_2498973156281562896m_169540586468905151gmail-m_5505282361713836537m_-94467141635834449gmail-m_-254853893602620168m_-1430113635152439921m_-6662830674891166283m_6085487820989011878m_-5465756499005179649gmail-docs-internal-guid-028064f6-7fff-801c-37d6-e680d4a47477"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bio: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Raymond J. Mooney is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is an author of over 180 published research papers, primarily in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. He was the President of the International Machine Learning Society from 2008-2011, program co-chair for AAAI 2006, general chair for HLT-EMNLP 2005, and co-chair for ICML 1990. He is a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and ACL and the recipient of the Classic Paper award from AAAI-19 and best paper awards from AAAI-96, KDD-04, ICML-05 and ACL-07. </span></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:13.91px">Host:</span></b><span style="line-height:13.91px"> <a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>David McAllester</b></a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"> </span></p></div><div><p style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"></p><img src="cid:ii_kn66edsg2" alt="image.png" width="189" height="58" style="margin-right:0px"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:18 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><div><h3 style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><b><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><i>TTIC Distinguished Lecture Series:</i></font></b></h3><h3 style="font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><b><font size="4" face="verdana, sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.266667px"><a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mooney/" target="_blank">Raymond J. Mooney,</a> </span></font></font></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">University of Texas at Austin </span></b></h3><div><img style="margin-right:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Monday</b><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">, March 14, 2022 </span><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">at 11:30 am CT</span></b></font></div><span style="outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial"></span></div><span style="outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial"></span><img src="cid:ii_l0bliar53" alt="image.png" width="228" height="210"></div><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#500050" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Where:    </b></font><font color="#500050" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Talk will be given </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font></div><div><div><div style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">                TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">                5th Floor, Room 530<b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></font></p></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Virtually:</font></span></b><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></b><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O8pTNeswQwywyWNPD_q_9A" style="font-size:small;color:blue" target="_blank"><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">register in advance here</font></span></b></a></div><div style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Raymond J. Mooney</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professor, Department of Computer Science </span></i></font><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span></i><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Director of the <a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/" target="_blank">Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</a> at the University of Texas at Austin</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></p></div><hr style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><span id="m_8135978160388122184gmail-m_2498973156281562896m_169540586468905151gmail-m_5505282361713836537m_-94467141635834449gmail-m_-254853893602620168m_-1430113635152439921m_-6662830674891166283m_6085487820989011878m_-5465756499005179649gmail-docs-internal-guid-99b2a842-7fff-afbd-120d-233d5fea86fa" style="font-size:small"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Title: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dialog with Robots: Perceptually Grounded Communication with Lifelong Learning</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Developing robots that can accept instructions from and collaborate with human users is greatly enhanced by an ability to engage in natural language dialog. Unlike most other dialog scenarios, this requires grounding the semantic analysis of language in perception and action in the world. Although deep-learning has greatly enhanced methods for such grounded language understanding, it is difficult to ensure that the data used to train such models covers all of the concepts that a robot might encounter in practice. Therefore, we have developed methods that can continue to learn from dialog with users during ordinary use by acquiring additional targeted training data from the responses to intentionally designed clarification and active learning queries. These methods use reinforcement learning to automatically acquire dialog strategies that support both effective immediate task completion as well as learning that improves future performance. Using both experiments in simulation and with real robots, we have demonstrated that these methods exhibit life-long learning that improves long-term performance.</span></p><br></span><span id="m_8135978160388122184gmail-m_2498973156281562896m_169540586468905151gmail-m_5505282361713836537m_-94467141635834449gmail-m_-254853893602620168m_-1430113635152439921m_-6662830674891166283m_6085487820989011878m_-5465756499005179649gmail-docs-internal-guid-028064f6-7fff-801c-37d6-e680d4a47477" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bio: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Raymond J. Mooney is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is an author of over 180 published research papers, primarily in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. He was the President of the International Machine Learning Society from 2008-2011, program co-chair for AAAI 2006, general chair for HLT-EMNLP 2005, and co-chair for ICML 1990. He is a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and ACL and the recipient of the Classic Paper award from AAAI-19 and best paper awards from AAAI-96, KDD-04, ICML-05 and ACL-07. </span></span><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small"><br><br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:13.91px">Host:</span></b><span style="line-height:13.91px"> <a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>David McAllester</b></a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></p></div><div style="font-size:small"><p style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"></p><img src="cid:ii_kn66edsg2" alt="image.png" width="189" height="58" style="margin-right:0px"><p style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><br></p></div></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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